Even if our lives are not problem-free, our poetic and mystical sides remind us, when we are attentive enough, of…
Swinging between enough and not enough
transcendence
Praying with one’s legs again
To stand there in Sarura wearing t-shirts that read “occupation is not my Judaism” and going through a ritualistic liturgy…
Promise and consolation
How does one take loss seriously and figure out how to transform it into action rather than identity?
What’s more? or, An answer to the question “Is this all there is?”
“Is this all there is?” then, is not a question, or is more than one, and that is part of…
Novel enclosures, or Reading for confinement
But this summer, when my usual forms of internet news seeking became a more heart-wrenching pastime even than the self-loathing…
Lucretius and the immanence of motion
Lucretius was the first philosopher of immanence. It is he and not Democritus or Epicurus who holds this title.
Chinese religions in comparative historical perspective
This short essay draws up the principal ideas from a book chapter concerning the historical field of Chinese religions in…
Vinyl prayers
Prayer may be an act of gratitude after the fact. It may be a weapon, a request to heal the…
Thinking otherwise
By insisting that this is all there is, the secularist position forecloses the emergence of anything other than this. Since…
Love and reason
Anyone who has entered the labyrinth of A Secular Age should welcome this volume as a guide. Its contributors unwind…